TWF + Thrwon weapons

[CRGreathouse]

I think i'm the stubborn one.

In my game, you can't fight with two weapons and use Rapid Shot - they simply don't work together. What I'm trying to find is the rules to back this up.

Melee weapons that are being thrown are ranged weapons, no doubt about it. Also, per this quote:

The Two-Weapon Fighting feat does not reduce these penalties because it represents skill with melee weapons, not ranged weapons. The Ambidexterity feat lets someone avoid the -4 off-hand penalty (-6 primary hand/-6 off hand)."

the feat Two-Weapon Fighting doesn't help with ranged weapons. However, Two-Weapon Fighting isn't needed to use two weapons - it just helps the penalties.

Where in the rules does it state that these can't be combied? By a literal reading of the rules, it seems that a character with Ambidexterity and Rapid shot could fire two extra weapons; all attacks would suffer a -4 penalty from fighting with multiple light weapons and -2 from Rapid Shot. This literal reading would allow a Ftr1 with Dex 18 and Str 14 to attack at -1/-1 for 1d4+2 and -1 for 1d4+1.

Remember, I don't agree with this - I'm playing the devil's advocate.

 

[IceBear]

Now, I know there have been many errors with the Powerplays in Dragon, but in the last issue, they had one where they did allow someone to use Rapid Shot with TWF. All the attacks suffered a -2 penalty due to the use of Rapid Shot, but only the last attack was a ranged attack.

IceBear